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In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[â ]
1980Steven Gerrard, English international footballer and manager[â ]
Steven George Gerrard MBE is an English professional football manager and a former player. Widely regarded as one of the greatest midfielders of all time and one of Liverpool's greatest ever players, Gerrard spent the majority of his playing career as a central midfielder for Liverpool and the England national team, captaining both.
1980Ilona Korstin, Russian basketball player[â ]
Ilona Kalyuvna Korstin is a retired Russian basketball forward of Estonian origin, who competed for her native Russia at the 2004 Summer Olympics, the 2008 Summer Olympics, and the 2012 Summer Olympics, winning two bronze medals. She ended her career in 2013.
1980RyĆgo Narita, Japanese author[â ]
RyĆgo Narita is a Japanese light novelist and manga writer. He won the Gold Prize in the 9th Dengeki Novel Prize for Baccano!, which was made into an anime television series in 2007. His series Durarara!! was also made into two anime television series, one airing January 2010 and the second in January 2015.
1980Carl Radle, American bass player and producer (born 1942)[â ]
Carl Dean Radle was an American bassist who toured and recorded with many of the most influential recording artists of the late 1960s and 1970s. He was posthumously inducted to the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame in 2006.
WASHINGTON, May 29 The Federal Communications Commission today approved a $600 million increase in long-distance phone rates by the Americam Telephone and Telegraph Company but turned down a larger, two-step, 10.5 percent increase.
A joint committee of two major lawyers' associations said yesterday that the state's highest court, the Court of Appeals, had unjustly criticized Justice Arnold G. Fraiman of State Supreme Court last year.
IT speaks eloquently for the easy social mobility of our times that a unit so informally musical as the Sun Ra Jet Set Universe Arkestra should occupy tonight and tomorrow a pier of the ...
FORT WAYNE, Ind., May 29 Vernon E. Jordan Jr., president of the National Urban League, was shot in the back and severely wounded early this morning in the parking lot of his motel here.
On the surface it seemed simple. There was, at the corner of River side Drive and 89th Street on the Upper West Side, a 79-year-old house known as the Isaac L. Rice mansion.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 29 A mere six blocks away from each other, President Carter and Ronald Reagan today painted two entirely different pictures of the United States and of their own visions for the country at competing noontime rallies here.
A four-day rally at the New York Stock Exchange came to an abrupt halt yesterday as the Dow Jones industrial average plunged 14.07 points in active trading. The drop was the biggest since the Dow lost 15.79 points on April 7.
THERE is something inherently absorb about an art museum keeping the cream of its permanent collection in fairly continuous storage while its public exhibition space is given over to temporary loan shows not invariably equal in quality or interest to the permanent holdings they displace.
J.M.W. Turner's "Juliet and Her Nurse" was sold yesterday for $6.4 million at Sotheby Parke Bernet, becoming the most expensive art work ever sold at auction and probably the most costly painting ever sold in any fashion.
ALBANY, May 29 Government documents suggesting that lethal gases, corrosive acids and radioactive waste were dumped by the Federal Government during World War II in at least five sites around Niagara Falls were made public today by a State Assembly task force.